"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

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Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

flaky(Adjective)

Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.

Some of his friends were flaky.

flaky(Adjective)

Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.

flaky(Adjective)

eccentric; scatterbrained

Origin: flake + -y

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Flaky(adj)

consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike

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flaky

(var sp. flakey) Subject to
frequent lossage. This use is of course related to
the common slang use of the word to describe a person as eccentric, crazy,
or just unreliable. A system that is flaky is working, sort of —
enough that you are tempted to try to use it — but fails frequently
enough that the odds in favor of finishing what you start are low.
Commonwealth hackish prefers dodgy or
wonky.